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Earlier this year, NCsoft announced that they would be launching a Guest Author program for their super hero MMO City of Heroes, allowing major outside talent to create new storylines for the game via the Mission Architect tools. Today NCsoft announced that acclaimed comic book author Bill Willingham will be added as one of the first people or teams involved in the Guest Author program.

Willingham is best known for his work on Fables, the DC Vertigo comic that takes a new spin on familiar fairy tale characters. He will be creating a City of Heroes mission called The Quest for Magic. He joins Red Vs Blue creators Rooster Teeth and PvP comic strip creator Scott Kurtz in making new missions for the MMO. All are scheduled to be made available to players of the game for free beginning on October 13.

In related news, City of Heroes is allowing all inactive accounts in good standing to be reactivated from now until Sunday at 11:59 pm PT. Also all characters will receive double their normal experience points during this weekend.

City of Heroes' recent release of its Mission Architect tool for making new content has certainly put in new life to the super hero MMO. Now developer Paragon Studios and publisher NCsoft have posted up word that the Mission Architect will be put to use by well known game-related creators for new missions

The Rooster Teeth crew, best known for their Halo-based Red Vs Blue machinima series of short films, will use the Mission Architect tool for new City of Heroes missions starring Captain Dynamic. Rooster Teeth first used the character in a series of short live action films made to promote the initial release of the Mission Architech tool. Also Scott Kurtz, the creator of the PvP web comic strip, will bring one of his own strip creations, LolBat, to City of Heroes via the Mission Architech.

[Via Massively]

This is the final episode of the 3-part City of Heroes video series starring Captain Dynamic. The series was put together by Rooster Teeth (of Red vs Blue fame) and promotes the upcoming Issue 14 game expansion, which features a Mission Architect. Continue reading after the jump to see the other two videos.

Download HD City of Heroes: Captain Dynamic Episode 3 (200 MB)
Download HD City of Heroes: Captain Dynamic Episode 2 (120 MB)
Download HD City of Heroes: Captain Dynamic Episode 1 (82 MB)

This is the second episode of a three part video series created by Rooster Teeth (creators of Red vs Blue) to promote the upcoming City of Heroes Issue 14 expansion and its Mission Architect feature. Many burning questions, like what Captain Dynamics powers are, where he got his name and who is arch nemesis is are answered in this video.

Download HD City of Heroes: Captain Dynamic Episode 2 (120 MB)
Download HD City of Heroes: Captain Dynamic Episode 1 (82 MB)

In honor of the upcoming City of Heroes Issue 14 update, which features a Mission Architect, Rooster Teeth (makers of the famous Red vs Blue series) decided to develop a three-part live action series starring Captain Dynamic. Issue 14 is still in closed beta testing, but you can see Captain Dynamic work his powers right now with the first episode. Be prepared to press his awesome button.

Download HD Captain Dynamic Episode 1 (82 MB)
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Rooster Teeth came to much fame with their machinima work on the Halo series of games. They have also done a few side projects involving F.E.A.R. and The Sims 2. Now the team has launched a new series featuring Supreme Commander, the Gas Powered Studios developed sci-fi RTS game.

The series is meant to to promote the upcoming Xbox 360 port of the game that Aspyr is releasing to stores next week but we are going to ignore that for this discussion. Supreme Commander is a PC game and no console port is going to take that away from our platform. Anyway, check out the first episode of the series; it's currently unknown how many chapters it will have.

The guys at Rooster Teeth have been making Red vs Blue machinima games based on Bungie's Halo series for a while now (with some side projects featuring F.E.A.R. and The Sims 2) but the Austin-based team has recently put the series on the back burner . . .until now, that is.

The official Rooster Teeth web site has just launched a new Red vs Blue series with the sub title Reconstruction. And this time, it's serious. That is, the tone of this new season of machinima video episodes seems to ditch the comedic themes of all the previous Red vs Blue titles for a hard sci-fi drama set in the Halo universe. Will this switch make the Rooster Teeth team gain new fans or make their older fans upset? You be the judge.

[Via Joystiq]